On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 04:10:07 -0800 (PST), LoveSlinger
<lilhornie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Apparently not content to ex****t just poison food, medicines, toys,
>and other sub-standard trade commodities, scientists now find "YELLOW
>DUST" pollutants from the "country" that is preparing to hold the
>Olympics amid health-busting bad air is so totally full of harmful
>atmospheric dust that it's being carried by the wind to places halfway
>around the world!
>
>Thanks, CHINA, for all you do!
Canute the Great (995-1035), king of England, Denmark, and Norway,
celebrated for "trying to hold back the tide," commanding the waves of
the sea to retreat as a reprimand of his courtiers;
Illogical associations must be a White Guy thingy.
Anyway, seriously, that was a good article. Except the author doesn't
know that much about the epidemiology of organic diseases. Hospitals
on any day of the week are hotbeds of fearsome infectious diseases.
Yet neither the staff, visitors, nor the neighborhood, nor the
population in whatever city that hospital is in get the infections. A
very fundamental fact is infectious organisms are by and large
anaerobics. They live in an oxygen free environment and die in the
presence of oxygen. There are other factors why you don't get sick by
breathing but this should do. Infections cannot be carried by the
wind let alone across oceans. The Old World got "Montezuma's
Revenge", syphilis, from the New World. You can get that only
through the exchange of body fluids. Similarly AIDs can be
transmitted only by the same route, through blood or ***ual
intercourse. Malaria needs a mosquito as a vector. SARS needs a
vector and the suspicion is a virus, harmless to most brids, may cross
the species barrier and attack an immunologically unprepared human.
Breat easy.
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